Drawer

ABSTRACT

The drawer has a front plate provided with a recess in its upper edge area. The recess is configured in such a way that the front plate is comprised of a rectangular plate (5) made of wooden or plastic material and of two profiled parts which are secured in the upper corner area of the plate and comprising a first upright (6a) seizing the respective corner and a second upwardly projecting upright. To the upwardly projecting uprights of the profiled parts there is secured an upper strut which is also secured to the rear wall of the drawer.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

The subject invention relates to a drawer with a front plate providedwith a recess in its upper edge area and with struts provided in thearea of the longitudinal sides which are mounted to the rear wall, onthe one hand, and on the front plate, on the other hand.

Drawers of the aforementioned type are known.

In the hitherto known drawers of the foregoing type the front plate isalways made from one piece.

This means that the front plate must be cut at its upper edge area if itconsists of wood, and if it consists of plastic it must be molded in acorresponding mold or must also be cut at the upper edge area.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

It is an object of the invention to construct a drawer of this type insuch a manner that the front plate can be made simply and costeffective.

This object is solved in accordance with the invention in that the frontplate consists of a rectangular plate, made of wood or plastic and twoshaped parts which are mounted in the upper edge area of the plate andwhich are provided with one shank extending over the given corner andanother upright protruding shank, whereby the upper struts are securedon the upwardly protruding shanks of the shaped parts.

By the shaped parts which are mounted on the plate a front plate isformed which again is provided with a recess in its edge area. Therequired individual parts consists of the rectangular plate andmentioned shaped parts. The shaped parts can be made comparablyinexpensive in corresponding quantities. The same holds true for asimple, rectangular plate, on which no further processing have to beperformed. Therefore, the total costs for such a front plate are finallyconsiderably less expensive than with a unitary front plate.

A further advantage of the invention resides in the fact that the makingof differently sized front plates does not present any difficulties,since the shaped parts can always be used independently from thedimensions of the front plate.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING

FIG. 1 is a perspective illustration of a drawer in accordance with theinvention;

FIG. 2 is a partial section in accordance with line II--II of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a partial view in direction of the arrow III in FIG. 2;

FIG. 4 is a view in direction of the arrow IV in FIG. 3.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT

The drawer illustrated in FIG. 1 essentially consists of a bottom 1, arear wall 2, a front plate 3 struts 4 which are mounted along thelongitudinal side and are mounted on the rear wall 2, on the one hand,and on the other hand, on the front plate.

The drawing is constructed in form of an english train, that means thefront plate 3 is provided with a recess at its upper edge area.

As FIGS. 1 and 2 clearly illustrate, the front plate 1 consists of arectangular plate 5 made from wood or plastic, as well as two shapedparts 6. These shaped parts 6 are mounted on the given upper corner areaof the plate and extend over the given corner. The shaped parts 6 areprovided each with one shank 6a which extends over the correspondingcorner of the plate 5. Moreover, the shaped parts 6 are provided eachwith an upright directed shank 6b, so that the structure of the shapedparts 6 is T-shaped.

The upper struts 4 are mounted on the upright extending shanks 6b ofshaped parts 6.

The lower struts 4 are mounted in the area of the front plate 3 togetherwith the shaped parts 6 on plate 5, which is particularly illustrated inFIG. 1.

The shaped parts 6 are made from unitary pieces and and are plastic andare open at the segments which extend over the given corner of plate 5.Otherwise, the shaped parts 6 are closed with the exception of assemblyopenings 6c and 6d through which the struts 4 are fed. This means thatafter the mounting of the shaped parts 6 on plate 5 and after mountingthe struts 4 the front plate 3 is completely closed.

The insertion of the shaped parts 6 is independent from the size ofplate 5, so that any given size drawers can be equipped with a frontplate 3 in a simple manner by means of the aforementioned mode and whichare provided with a recess in their upper edge area.

We claim:
 1. A drawer, comprising a front plate; a rear wall; and twopairs of parallel longitudinal struts extending at two opposinglongitudinal sides of the drawer and secured to said rear wall, saidfront plate including a substantially rectangular plate made of wood orplastic and having a recess in an upper edge area thereof and twoT-shaped connecting parts mounted at two opposing edges of saidrectangular plate, each of said pairs including an upper strut and alower strut, said plate having an upper surface, said T-shapedconnecting parts each including a lower shank extending downwardly fromsaid upper surface and receiving said lower strut of a respective pairof said longitudinal struts, an upper shank extending upwardly from saidupper surface and receiving said upper shank of the respective pair, andan intermediate portion engaging said upper surface, whereby each strutis mounted to said front plate.
 2. The drawer as defined in claim 1,wherein each connecting part is made of a unitary plastic piece.
 3. Thedrawer as defined in claim 1, wherein said rectangular plate has two endfaces, said lower shank of each connecting part partially engaging arespective end face of said rectangular plate.
 4. The drawer as definedin claim 3, wherein each connecting part has openings for receiving saidpair of parallel struts and is a piece substantially closed at threesides thereof.